Happy New Year to everyone! (Civil calendar, that is. The Church new year is on 1 September).
We pulled back in to our home yesterday evening about 6pm. We’d split the return journey in two, stopping overnight just west of St Louis in Fenton, MO. It was a bonus: we got the honeymoon [...]
Archive for January 1st, 2008
The New Year
Posted in Dailyness and My Life on Tuesday, 1 January 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Circumcision of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
Posted in Orthodox Feasts and Fasts on Tuesday, 1 January 2008 | No Comments »
Troparion of the Feast Tone 1
Thou Who art by nature God, didst without change take human form,/ O most compassionate Lord,/ and in fulfilling the Law of Thine own will didst receive circumcision in the flesh,/ to banish hades and roll away the veil of our passions./ Glory to Thy goodness; glory to Thy compassion;/ [...]
Our Father Among the Saints, Basil the Great of Caesarea
Posted in Saints and Martyrs on Tuesday, 1 January 2008 | No Comments »
Troparion of St Basil the Great Tone 1
Thy fame has gone forth into all the earth,/ which has received thy word./ Thereby thou hast taught the Faith; thou hast revealed the nature of created things;/ thou hast made a royal priesthood of the ordered life of men./ Righteous Father Basil, intercede with Christ our God/ [...]

